diff --git a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesReader.java b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesReader.java
index a0c7af7394..aeacc71cbc 100644
--- a/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesReader.java
+++ b/parquet-column/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/column/values/plain/PlainValuesReader.java
@@ -19,25 +19,36 @@
 package org.apache.parquet.column.values.plain;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.ByteOrder;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.ByteBufferInputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.bytes.LittleEndianDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.values.ValuesReader;
-import org.apache.parquet.io.ParquetDecodingException;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 /**
- * Plain encoding for float, double, int, long
+ * Plain encoding for float, double, int, long.
+ *
+ * <p>Reads directly from a {@link ByteBuffer} with {@link ByteOrder#LITTLE_ENDIAN} byte order,
+ * bypassing the {@link LittleEndianDataInputStream} wrapper to avoid per-value virtual dispatch
+ * overhead. The underlying page data is obtained as a single contiguous {@link ByteBuffer} via
+ * {@link ByteBufferInputStream#slice(int)}.
  */
 public abstract class PlainValuesReader extends ValuesReader {
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(PlainValuesReader.class);
 
-  protected LittleEndianDataInputStream in;
+  ByteBuffer buffer;
 
   @Override
   public void initFromPage(int valueCount, ByteBufferInputStream stream) throws IOException {
     LOG.debug("init from page at offset {} for length {}", stream.position(), stream.available());
-    this.in = new LittleEndianDataInputStream(stream.remainingStream());
+    int available = stream.available();
+    if (available > 0) {
+      this.buffer = stream.slice(available).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
+    } else {
+      this.buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(0).order(ByteOrder.LITTLE_ENDIAN);
+    }
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -45,31 +56,25 @@ public void skip() {
     skip(1);
   }
 
-  void skipBytesFully(int n) throws IOException {
-    int skipped = 0;
-    while (skipped < n) {
-      skipped += in.skipBytes(n - skipped);
-    }
-  }
-
   public static class DoublePlainValuesReader extends PlainValuesReader {
 
     @Override
     public void skip(int n) {
-      try {
-        skipBytesFully(n * 8);
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not skip " + n + " double values", e);
-      }
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + n * 8);
     }
 
     @Override
     public double readDouble() {
-      try {
-        return in.readDouble();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not read double", e);
-      }
+      return buffer.getDouble();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads {@code count} doubles into {@code dest} starting at {@code offset}.
+     * Uses a bulk {@link java.nio.DoubleBuffer} view read for reduced per-value overhead.
+     */
+    public void readDoubles(double[] dest, int offset, int count) {
+      buffer.asDoubleBuffer().get(dest, offset, count);
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + count * Double.BYTES);
     }
   }
 
@@ -77,20 +82,21 @@ public static class FloatPlainValuesReader extends PlainValuesReader {
 
     @Override
     public void skip(int n) {
-      try {
-        skipBytesFully(n * 4);
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not skip " + n + " floats", e);
-      }
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + n * 4);
     }
 
     @Override
     public float readFloat() {
-      try {
-        return in.readFloat();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not read float", e);
-      }
+      return buffer.getFloat();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads {@code count} floats into {@code dest} starting at {@code offset}.
+     * Uses a bulk {@link java.nio.FloatBuffer} view read for reduced per-value overhead.
+     */
+    public void readFloats(float[] dest, int offset, int count) {
+      buffer.asFloatBuffer().get(dest, offset, count);
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + count * Float.BYTES);
     }
   }
 
@@ -98,20 +104,21 @@ public static class IntegerPlainValuesReader extends PlainValuesReader {
 
     @Override
     public void skip(int n) {
-      try {
-        in.skipBytes(n * 4);
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not skip " + n + " ints", e);
-      }
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + n * 4);
     }
 
     @Override
     public int readInteger() {
-      try {
-        return in.readInt();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not read int", e);
-      }
+      return buffer.getInt();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads {@code count} integers into {@code dest} starting at {@code offset}.
+     * Uses a bulk {@link java.nio.IntBuffer} view read for reduced per-value overhead.
+     */
+    public void readIntegers(int[] dest, int offset, int count) {
+      buffer.asIntBuffer().get(dest, offset, count);
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + count * Integer.BYTES);
     }
   }
 
@@ -119,20 +126,21 @@ public static class LongPlainValuesReader extends PlainValuesReader {
 
     @Override
     public void skip(int n) {
-      try {
-        in.skipBytes(n * 8);
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not skip " + n + " longs", e);
-      }
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + n * 8);
     }
 
     @Override
     public long readLong() {
-      try {
-        return in.readLong();
-      } catch (IOException e) {
-        throw new ParquetDecodingException("could not read long", e);
-      }
+      return buffer.getLong();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads {@code count} longs into {@code dest} starting at {@code offset}.
+     * Uses a bulk {@link java.nio.LongBuffer} view read for reduced per-value overhead.
+     */
+    public void readLongs(long[] dest, int offset, int count) {
+      buffer.asLongBuffer().get(dest, offset, count);
+      buffer.position(buffer.position() + count * Long.BYTES);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 1bd9893d87..b2fd26c5d5 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -594,6 +594,8 @@
               <exclude>org.apache.parquet.internal.column.columnindex.IndexIterator</exclude>
               <!-- Removal of a protected method in a class that's not supposed to be subclassed by third-party code -->
               <exclude>org.apache.parquet.column.values.bytestreamsplit.ByteStreamSplitValuesReader#gatherElementDataFromStreams(byte[])</exclude>
+              <!-- Removal of a protected internal field that should not have been part of the public API -->
+              <exclude>org.apache.parquet.column.values.plain.PlainValuesReader#in</exclude>
               <!-- Due to the removal of deprecated methods -->
               <exclude>org.apache.parquet.arrow.schema.SchemaMapping$TypeMappingVisitor#visit(org.apache.parquet.arrow.schema.SchemaMapping$MapTypeMapping)</exclude>
               <!-- Intentional removal of deprecated Pig support from parquet-thrift -->